Court orders source code protections in landmark AI copyright lawsuit by news groups

A federal district court has approved a proposed order by parties in a landmark lawsuit filed by the New York Times and other news outlets against Microsoft and OpenAI alleging copyright infringements from the training of ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence model.

“A Party may designate extremely sensitive Protected Discovery Material as ‘HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE’ if the material represents confidential, proprietary, or trade secret computer code (i.e., computer instructions and data definitions expressed in a form suitable for...